For Argus Day this year I choose three cameras to use: An
Argus STL-1000 SLR, An Argus "Cintar" 2 megapixel compact digital (for
backup, in case something went wrong with the film), and a model C3
Matchmatic. The film cameras were loaded with rolls of Fuji 200 color print film, the digital was loaded with 1 gig SD card.

And I chose three locations to visit: Laumeier Sculpture Park, Powder Valley Conservation Center, and an old cemetery in Kirkwood on Geyer Road at Monroe.

The STL-1000 performed well enough with the Yashinon 50mm lens.

The
C3 Matchmatic did very well, showing how crisp the images can be from a
clean and adjusted f:3.5 / 50mm Cintar lens in an Argus Brick body.

The first picture was taken at Burnaby Lake Park. It was taken on an Argus C4M Electro.The
second was taken not far away in front of CG Brown Pool and Sports
Centre. It is of a topiary frog holding a Canada flag (it is Canada's
150th birthday). It was taken with an Argus E TLR with 120 Ilford Delta
Pro 100 developed in Blazinol (Rodinal).

Wesley Furr

I
spent my lunch break on Argust 17th having lunch with a friend and
giving him a chance to shoot an Argus (see Greg's photos below).
Not sure I've yet convinced him to give up his Leica though...

We
took some photos in the park, then I wandered through town a bit
looking for interesting shots. The first photo is of a local
Italian restaurant on main street. Second photo is of a door on
another older building on main street.

As
a first time C3 shooter I need more practice but am happy with the
results. It has been much too long since shooting film and I
thoroughly enjoyed the slower, totally manual approach. I will
certainly be using film and manual cameras more often.

Tom Hoglund

Two
pics taken on Argust 17th of the Blue Angels practicing for the annual
Chicago Air & Water Show. The Blue Angels only appear every 2nd
year, alternating with the Air Force Thunderbirds. In honor of the
bright colors of these Navy planes, used Kodak ISO 400 color film to
capture the fast action and sent them out for developing instead of
doing at home.

These were taken on an Argus/Cosina STL
1000. In order to get the reach I needed, I used a Tamron
Adaptall 80-210 zoom with the M42 adapter. Shot at 1/1000 at
about f/8 or whatever my handheld meter was saying at the moment (meter
in the camera is several stops off).

You can tell how fast
these babies were flying by our window on the 27th floor by looking at
how the boats in the closer shot are motion blurred even at 1/1000 of a
second as I pan the camera to follow the planes.

Rich Reeder

Both
photos were taken with a 1947-ish Argus C3, #246418. On the 17th,
I was in Charleston, SC, to see my son, Ross, & his wife, My.
I used Ilford FP4+ black & white film, home developed in HC-110,
dilution 'D' (1:39).

1st Photo: 8.17.2017. 1/100,
f/13.5, Fort Sumter, SC. Yellow filter. The fort was
initially several stories tall, but the Confederacy had shelled it so
much that it is now a 'ruins'. It is being cleaned up, a process
that started in the 1800's, a real job with a future. Charleston
is in the distance.

2nd Photo: 8.17.2017. 1/50,
f/9.5, Ross at 23 Queen St, Charleston, SC, & canon in
sidewalk. Charleston has been filling in & building on the
fill for 200 years. This canon, no doubt unusable at the time, was used
as a tie down for ships. That road used to be the ocean, &
Ross would be standing on the 'dock'. For some reason the people
kept it where it was, & built the sidewalk around it.
Probably the only one like it in America.

Dave Thomas

This year's Argus Day found Ye Olde Photographer
on a meandering multi-day trip toward southeastern Illinois to attempt
to capture the total eclipse on August 21st. YOP found himself at a
hotel in Springfield Ohio at the end of a rainy evening and it wasn't
until reading his email after a late dinner and seeing comments from
other Argus folks he snapped back to attention!

Well, never
too late ... the plan had been to use some ancient Kodak Panatomic-X,
but since it was already dark outside, we loaded the C-3 with an actual
in-date 24-exposure cassette of Kodak 400Tmax. We began the roll with
some night shots outside the Holiday Inn Express. Then, to stay within
the 17th, we went inside to the hotel room and did silly things. A
tripod was used for all this, as the exposures used fairly slow shutter
speeds. Normally the C-3 would not be Ye Olde Photographer's first
choice for night shots and table top or interior detail shots, but it
was an interesting challenge. The film was developed in Kodak
HC110, Dilution H (1+63), scanned with a PrimeFilm XE.

Picture 1: Lobby entrance for the aforementioned hotel

Picture 2: "Selfie" a bit of vanity to add variety

A selection of the rest of the roll, some finished the next morning, may be seen at YOP's PBase site.

The
first photo is Car 355 at the Connecticut Trolley Museum in Windsor,
CT. The second is from Saville Dam in Barkhamsted, CT. Both photos were
taken with an Argus C44R camera with 35mm Cintagon lens, using
Fujicolor C200 film.

Ron DeBlock

1. New bridge in my neighborhood, opened just a few weeks before Argus Day on Argust 1, 2017. It replaced a bridge built in 1910. C3, 35mm Sandmar, 400TX

The
first is A memorial to the memory of the hunt. The grounds that were
used are now a beautiful park that runs along the Nashua River and is
used by us for walking along the trail with our doggies!!! It is
called, of course, "The Dog Park!!!" i used a Kowalski C3 sunny
16 200 ASA film at f5.6.The second picture was taken of a statue of
a faithful dog. It is part of a large circular bench near the river. I
used a Kowalski C3, sunny 16 rules. 200 ASA film at f5.6.

Diana Chiriboga-Flor

These
are the pictures taken by Richard's daughter, Diana. We decided to
first visit the super famous Bancroft Castle located on top of Gibbet
Hill in Groton. The first picture is of bumblebees doing their thing. I
forget what those prickly things are called but interesting!!!. The
second picture sure surprised us. A group of people were filming scenes
from a movie using the castle as a set. The gladiator is Arcus and his
picture was taken by an Argus!!! Diana used a CR1, sunny 16 200
ASA at F16.

Dixon J. Miller

Both
photos were shot with my Argus C44 on Kodak T-MAX 400 (my first time
using this film...I couldn't get any Tri-X, so opted for T-MAX).
It was very sunny that Thursday, as I exited the NYC subway on Wall
Street, by Trinity Church, and headed east a few blocks to take the
ferry across the East River to the Brooklyn IKEA. I shot these at
1/300 sec, f5.6-8, with a red A filter.

1. The first shot was
taken from the Trinity Church Cemetery, looking past the shadowed
statue of John Watts towards the tops of structures old and new,
including the Church's pinnacles and the top of One World Trade
Center's Freedom Tower.

2. The second shot shows Manhattan, taken from a Brooklyn-bound ferry, with parts of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in view.

I
ran out with my '58 Matchmatic loaded with 200 speed Fujifilm. Both
shots are from the York Fairgrounds, home of "Americas' First Fair".
The first shot is of the side of the Grandstand. The other is one of
the iron gates to enter the fairgrounds.

Joe Gigli

I am a professional photographer in NJ, and in my free time I like to shoot film with old cameras.I
found your site last year and figured why not use an Argus C3 on my
Vacation back in August, and I am looking forward to 8/18/18.

The
photos are of the Covered bridge in Downsville NY in the Catskill
Region, using an Argus C3 with the Argus Coated Cintar 50mm F3.5.Film was Fuji Superia 400 and my exposures where 1/300th at F/16, negatives were scanned with a Nikon LS-2000.